Filed under: Friends of Rob & Emily | Tags: back porch, Crista Moore, dictionary, garage apartment, Khaki, kitchen table, laminating machine, linen, tea, watermelon
Here are some of the things I don’t think about without thinking about our times with Mrs. Shery:
Garage apartments – up until two years ago, I was still making trouble up there!!
Decorum – Mrs. Shery always made me look it up, in that big dictionary that took too much room in the kitchen, if I was being rude or un-ladylike~probably after playing Baby Got Back!!
Tea – she loved her tea.
The word Khaki or Slacks – Todd Patton renamed the dog Khaki to Slacks.
Old random buttons – you all know that bowl.
Watermelon – you all remember Rob’s message about Emily.
The number 9 that looks like this instead of a straight line down – that’s how she wrote it.
Critta Mo – Eric G coined it but Mrs. Shery approved and changed it and call me
“my mo!”
Linen outfits – she wore them well.
Laminating – since she was the first person I knew with a machine and I actually received one of those cards from Jason Mackenzie!! PS-I now have a machine of my own and still have that lovely card from Jason!
It’s amazing how many areas of our lives she touched. I actually think I have muscle memory for opening the back yard gate, walking up the Reeves’ back porch steps and opening the back door. Half of the times, I never made it past the first empty chair at the table.
It also amazes me that our stories are so similar about this one woman sitting at this one kitchen table in this one two-story house on this one street in this one small town during a relatively small amount of time in our lives and what a HUGE, LONG-LASTING effect she made on all of us.
I love that even though I haven’t seen, spoken to, or even thought about some of the people sharing or being shared about – we have a common bond that doesn’t take long to reconnect us all – SHERY LOVE.
I love you Emily for doing this.
What I remember most about your mother is her warmth. I considered your home as kind of a second home. And I considered your mom as sort of a second mom along with Mrs. Kelsall. Every time I came over to your house, she was always glowing in the kitchen. She made me feel comfortable and at ease. What I thought was great about her was that you could just sit and talk to her about anything. There were plenty of times when no one else was in the kitchen or the back patio and she and I would talk and just hang out. It was never awkward or forced or “hurry up Rob, let’s get out of here”. It was like I’d known her my whole life. Of all the fun and memorable things I’ve done in my life, I consider the moments just hanging out in your kitchen with both of your parents as some of the best. And I think your mother was a big reason for that.
